PO1321

Real Stories of Green IT: Solving the Data Center Power Crisis

This session will show how virtualization can solve the data center power crisis while reducing hardware and operating costs. Interior Health and First American will present real life implementations of virtualization that made Green IT a reality for their organizations. The session will review the metrics for success, key design decisions, tips for working with your local utility, and advice for managing capacity for a large deployment.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Kris Jmaeff( InteriorHealth ), Mark Vaughn( First American Corporation ), Aaron Andrews( The First American Corporation )

Aaron Andrews has over 17 years experience in the Information Technology field. His background includes architecture and management of the Distributed Systems and Virtualization infrastructure supporting the entire First American Corporation. His teams of highly-skilled professionals implement policies, procedures, and business processes based on the ITIL v2 Framework in order to provide an excellent level of service to all aspects of the business.
Aaron has supported many Fortune 500 companies during the past 17 years, including MetLife, First American, as well as, several others.

Working in the IT field for 15 years since graduation, Kris has worked for Health Authorities and School Districts in Saskatchewan and British Columbia in Canada. Currently a Information System Security Specialist & Senior Data Center Analyst & Project Manager for Interior Health's Data Center Virtualization Project, Kris is leading an initiative to virtualize 250 of the Data Center's 450 Servers before migrating to a new Green Data Center in Kelowna, B.C.

Mark Vaughn serves as an Enterprise Architect for The First American Corporation's Information Technology Group. In this capacity, Mr. Vaughn works with IT and business resources from a number of First American business units, providing mission-critical services to employees, partners and customers.
Prior to joining The First American Corporation in 1998, Mr. Vaughn spent two years with iNetSpace, where he began his career in web development, delivering applications for the telecommunications and medical industries.
He holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Howard Payne University and a master's degree in business administration from Baker College.